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How many miles do you drive per day on average?

How many miles do you drive per day?

  • 33 miles or less

    Votes: 82 59.4%

  • 30-40 miles

    Votes: 18 13.0%

  • 40-60 miles

    Votes: 10 7.2%

  • 60-80 miles

    Votes: 7 5.1%

  • 80-100 miles

    Votes: 9 6.5%

  • 100+ miles

    Votes: 12 8.7%
  • Total voters
    138
Google tells me that it's 1.1 km (less than a mile) from my house to my work. Most shops are local too so on a typical day I get nowhere near the 33 mile mark.

When I was at uni I commuted about 170 km/day (about 105 miles) but thankfully those days are long gone.
 
My journey is about 48 miles round trip, but I don't drive - I ride my motorbike. The only thing that keeps me off the roads is the snow ;0) Was fricken cold last Friday -5*C

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DoFoT9 said:
i wouldnt recommend that. our highways mainly consist of one lane roads (each way of course) - and they are uneven and rocky. thats what its like around my part anyway (northern nsw).

dual lane carriage ways are a luxury :p
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At least the windy single laners keep you awake and alert ;)

...your only worry be the roos. (and incompetent or perhaps drunk drivers...)
 
Rodimus Prime said:
good greif that is not that many miles. I have had months were I cranks out more miles than your car has on it. I have crank out 4k in under a month before.
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Not exactly as the rust will rust apart including the floor your sitting on. lol
 
Old commute(California): 8.1 miles each way, total = 16.2

New commute(Illinois): 21.9 miles each way, total = 43.8
 
When working It's about 9.5 just over one way, thats 4 times a week so about 76 - 80 miles a week for the work run, plus the school run when i'm not working but thats 2 miles one way and then personal driving, but the personal driving depends on what i'm doing :)
 
Average about 20 miles a day

My Subaru Baja was bought back in Oct 2003 and I still have less than 50K on the odometer! To be honest, did work from home for about three years - so a couple of road trips to St. Louis and such don't show up.
 
leomac08 said:
If you're a commuter that drives a car everyday I would really love to see how many miles on average do you drive to work or school per day?

The Average American Driver drives 33.3 Miles per day.

On average I drive around 83-86 Miles per day.

From LAX (Los Angeles International Airport/Inglewood Area) to Irvine (Orange County, CA) on the 405 to go to school everyday M-F

and just for your information I used to drive a Toyota Highlander, but most recently i'm driving a Toyota Matrix.
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Well I must say I drive 47 miles each way 5 days a week that's 94 miles per day it kills me on gas and it kills me on my miles on my car
 
Average mile since I got the car 5.5 years ago: 26 miles per day.

For the first 2 years, I drove 40 miles per day.

Since March 2014, I drove 16 miles daily.

Since November 2015, I drove 5.53 miles daily. I drove 885 miles for 160 days. The car hasn't seen rain or snow during that period!
 
My ride to work is amazingly only about 6 miles each way /12 round trip to my main practice site. It's an awful ride in rush hour which I tend to avoid. No traffic = 20min, rush hour = 1hr+ Alternative during the nicer months = bike (40min Max, but lot of uphill on the way to). Public transit has no easy or direct route and takes about 2hrs. Uber with not rate hike is only about $15.

At my other practice site downtown, the drive is atrocious. Its less than 5 miles away. No traffic = 15 min (rare). Rush hour = 1:15+. I usually just take public transit which is 45min.

My girlfriend however has a 2mile 10min drive or 15min train/trolley to work. She has it much easier than I do.
 
zephead said:
The most I've ever driven in one sitting is 669 miles. :eek:
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Rookie :p
I drove 15 hours straight once. Philadelphia - Montreal - Toronto. I think it was around 800 miles.


Before we moved to WA, we drove a lot. My wife drove 25,000 miles a year, I did 18,000. Her commute was 40 miles each way, mine was 30 miles each way but 4 days a week.
 
67 miles each way here, have done this for 7.5 years

50 mies across the notorious (in the UK) M62 from Manchester to Leeds
 
Work from a home office, so none-to-low :cool:

My current daily average is a touch higher than normal due to new car overuse. I have 2-3 days a week of none, a few ~12 mile days, and then a handful of longer road trips (like 200+), the latter being where most of my mileage comes from.

For reference, my previous car, an '07 S2K had 22K miles through 2015 :) (though being a 2-seater, use was way more limited vs. the current 4-seater, that being one of the reasons for the current choice).
 
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D.T. said:
Work from a home office, so none-to-low :cool:

My current daily average is a touch higher than normal due to new car overuse. I have 2-3 days a week of none, a few ~12 mile days, and then a handful of longer road trips (like 200+), the latter being where most of my mileage comes from.

For reference, my previous car, an '07 S2K had 22K miles through 2015 :) (though being a 2-seater, use was way more limited vs. the current 4-seater, that being one of the reasons for the current choice).
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I don't think I realized this was specifically about commuting for work or school, but my first comment above is relevant, i.e., other than maybe 12-15 trips of maybe 30-35 miles a year, I'm 0 miles to work, day-to-day.
 
My round trip to work is about 8 miles, if it's nice I have expensive bikes to do it on. My Friday drive home is 180 and 180 back on Sunday.
 
Nowadays, 3.7 miles one way to the main office, 12 miles to the 2nd office. thinking about getting a boosted board instead of driving on main office days.

but average. well on my truck it will have right at 70,000 miles at it's 5 yr old mark which will put it at roughly 38 miles per day avg over the 5 years.
 
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